Benny and Shrimp - our first Book Club read

To celebrate the launch of Gransnet, we've given away copies of the international bestseller Benny and Shrimp to the first 250 gransnetters to sign up. It will also be the first title we read in the Gransnet Book Club. If you didn't win, buy Benny & Shrimp from Amazon.

Described by the Daily Mail as "sweet and pleasingly down to earth" and by the Observer as "offbeat, refreshing and addictive", Katrina Mazetti's novel is the story of a midlife couple who meet in a graveyard and are overcome by a totally unexpected and unlooked-for passion. 

 

The book was a runaway bestseller in Mazetti's native Sweden and over a million copies have been sold worldwide. Benny is a gentle, overworked farmer, who lives in a chaotically untended farmhouse; the woman he calls Shrimp has a minimalist apartment in the city and intellectual friends.

Will love overcome their differences in temperament and the habits of half a lifetime? Or is it all too much a case of Mars and Venus, and are they doomed to stay in their separate orbits?

 

Join the Book Club discussion

Once you've read Benny and Shrimp, we'd love to have you join in the discussion on our Book Club forum. Don't give away the ending, though - Katrina Mazetti will be joining gransnetters for a webchat in a few weeks' time.